All right, Alexander, let's talk about Modi's trip to Russia, two-day trip.

And Modi said that everything is on the table.

He's ready to discuss everything with Vladimir Putin and India and Russia.

They have a very close relationship, and it's become even closer since the

special military operations, since the conflict in Ukraine, and they're doing a ton of trade,

India and Russia, more than, more than I can remember, more than ever.

So what do you expect from this meeting

between Modi right but I mean I think the one important thing to understand about the

Indian-Russian relationship is that it is supported by a consensus in both countries so there is no

person in Russia in the political system there who does

not want a strong and good relationship with India. And the same is true in India. So, you know,

the Congress party forged the original relationship between the Soviet Union and India back in the 50s and 60s.

And more recently, it was the Congress Party when they were in government again

about a decade ago that led India into the bricks, in fact, played a formative role in creating the bricks.

Modi and Putin have developed a very close and very good relationship. But this is not controversial

in either country. Now, their relations have achieved a breakthrough over the last couple of years.

Trade has started in a very, very big way again. Previously, the relationship was very strong at a political level,

and Russia was also a significant arms supplier to India, but at an

economic level where the economic relationship between the Soviet Union and India had once

been very strong and very close. In the last 30 years, the economic relationship

between India and Russia has withered away. Now, it's come back and it's come back strongly.

But there are problems. And this is, I think, what this meeting is most focused about because there is a massive

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